Question 73·Easy·Transitions
The city council recently approved a $5 million renovation of the Riverside Art Museum, citing the building’s deteriorating roof and outdated climate-control system. ______ the renovation will expand gallery space by nearly 30 percent, allowing the museum to host larger traveling exhibitions.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
For transition questions, first ignore the answer choices and decide how the sentences relate: addition, contrast, cause-and-effect, example, time, or condition. Summarize the relationship in simple words (like "another benefit" or "a result"). Then group the choices by their function rather than their exact wording and pick the one whose function matches the relationship you identified; this prevents you from being tricked by a word that "sounds good" but doesn’t fit the logic.
Hints
Clarify the connection between the two sentences
Before looking at the answer choices, describe in your own words how the second sentence relates to the first: Is it adding a benefit, giving a result, contrasting, or talking about an alternative situation?
Check whether there is a cause-and-effect
Does the information about the roof and climate-control system directly cause the expansion of gallery space, or is the expansion just another point about the renovation?
Group the choices by function
Think about what each choice generally does in a sentence: one shows a result, one shows things happening at the same time, one introduces an alternative/"if not" situation, and one adds another supporting detail. Which of these functions matches the relationship you found?
Step-by-step Explanation
Understand what each sentence is doing
Read the text without the blank:
- First sentence: The council approved a renovation because of the building’s deteriorating roof and outdated climate-control system (reasons for the decision).
- Second sentence: The renovation will also expand gallery space and allow larger exhibitions (an additional benefit of the renovation).
So the second sentence is not a result of the roof problems; it is another positive point about the renovation.
Decide the logical relationship
Ask: How does the second sentence relate to the first?
- Is it showing a result of the first sentence?
- Is it talking about something happening at the same time but separate?
- Is it giving an alternative or “or else” situation?
- Or is it adding another benefit/detail to the information already given?
Here, it is clearly adding another benefit/detail of the renovation.
Match each choice to its relationship type
Now match each transition type:
- A) "Therefore," signals a result or consequence.
- B) "Meanwhile," signals something happening at the same time, often a separate or contrasting action.
- C) "Otherwise," signals what would happen in a different situation ("if not").
- D) "Moreover," signals additional, supporting information.
We need the word that introduces additional, supporting information, so the correct choice is D) Moreover,.